Winery - Honig
* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Here’s a nice cocktail-style wine that pleases for its dryness and crispness. It’s basically a simple quaffer, with no oak at all, and rewards for fresh, ripe pineapple, Meyer lemon, fig and date flavors. Try with your best homemade Ahi tuna tartare.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
From a vineyard on Rutherford’s cooler, western bench comes this dry, spicy, firmly tannic young 100% Cabernet. It’s aggressive and muscular now, with a hard, dusty astringency. But the rich core of red currants, black cherries, mocha, violets and cedar strongly suggests ageability. Better after 2011.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Made in an appealingly ripe, polished style, this 100% Cab has intense flavors of ripe cherries, currants, spices and cedar, with a dusty sprinkle of dried herbs. It shows the elegant balance and ageworthiness of a fine Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon. Now through 2012, at least.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A bit of sweaty rawness accompanies the aromas of pineapple, grapefruit and peach, while the palate is adequately citrusy but still a bit flat and low-acid. Good flavors but the mouthfeel is chunky. Ultimately the wine just tastes good.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A pleasing, fruity blend of melon, citrus, fig, anf herb flavors that finishes long and bright with a mineral edge.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
From the Rutherford section of Napa, here’s another fine example of the emerging quality of the ’96 vintage. Excellent aromas of brambly fruit, mint, cedar and cola introduce a velvety, balanced body. All parts are in sync with each other. Soft on the palate and smooth and light through the finish, it’s a Cabernet that’s easily approachable now, and well priced to boot.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
A pretty good Cab that shows plenty of richness. May lack a bit in nuance, but on the other hand, a little cellaring could benefit. As currently constructed, it’s rich and forward in berry-cherry fruit and oak, with lots of spices, and tastes a bit jammy-sweet. Honig’s single-vineyard Cabs always seem much better than their generic Napa Valley.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Ripe in blackberry fruit, with chocolate, root beer and currant notes, and well oaked, this dry wine shows plenty of polish and flair. It drinks well now, and has soft, velvety tannins.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Balanced and elegant, this is the kind of Cabernet you drink with ood where the food, not the wine, takes center stage. It’s dry and richly tannic, with complex but never overripe blackberry, cassis, coffee and oak flavors, and the finish is long and satisfying. Drink now–2012.
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* Expert NoteJanuary 12, 2012
Tastes just a little sweet in citrus and tropical fruit flavors, but the acidity is nice, almost tingly, and the finish is clean. Fine as a cocktail sipper and with spicy Asian noodles with chicken or prawns.
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